Friday, 30 September 2016

Classics Club Spin #14

Sigh! I usually get excited about the Classics Club Spin but this time, between my failures to finish my last spins and the load of books I already have on my plate, my enthusiasm is severely compromised. I should pass .....

........ however, if I can finish up some of my reads, I don't have much planned after them, AND I'm always trying to concentrate on my Classics Club List. So with these excuses in mind, I'm going to give it a whirl .....

The Rules for the spin are:

Go to your blog.

Pick twenty books that you've got left to read from your Classics Club list.

Post that list, numbered 1 - 20, on your blog by next Monday.

Monday morning, we'll announce a number from 1 - 20. Go to the list of twenty books you posted and select the book that corresponds to the number we announce.

The challenge is to read that book by December 1st.

I used the random list organizer here to choose the 20 books from my master list. Then I tweaked them, so my list ended up looking like this:

We (1921) - Yevgeny Zamyatin

Address to Young Men (363) - Saint Basil

The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy (1860) - Jacob Burckhardt

The History of Napoleon Buonoparte (1829) - John Gibson Lockhart

The Well at the World's End (1896) - William Morris

The City of God (426) - Augustine

Ivanhoe (1820) - Sir Walter Scott

Wives and Daughters (1864/66) - Elizabeth Gaskell

Dead Souls (1842) - Nikolai Gogol

If On A Winter's Night A Traveller (1979) - Italo Calvino

A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland and a Journal of a Tour of the Hebrides (1775) - Johnson & Boswell

Tartuffe (1669) - Molière

Twenty Years After (1845) - Alexandre Dumas

Framley Parsonage (1860-61) - Anthony Trollope

On the Social Contract (1762) - Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The Mysteries of Udolpho (1794) - Ann Radcliffe

The Interpretation of Dreams (1899) - Sigmund Freud

The Merchant of Venice (1596 - 1598) - William Shakespeare

The Histories (450 - 420 B.C.) - Herodotus

Journey to the Center of the Earth (1864) - Jules Verne

Oh, Lord help me. I left some BIGGIES on the list without changing them out. I just hope the spin goes in my favour and misses them. I'm sure I'll be tense until Monday. :-)

The Histories are coming up for me anyway, so I wouldn't be unhappy if it was the spin choice. But City of God! That would be appalling and I really hope to avoid The Mysteries of Udolpho. Thanks for the wishes ...... I'm going to get the salt ..... ;-)

A lot of biggies here! But sometimes they're the best - nice to get properly immersed in. My pick would be one of the sci-fis, I think - We or Journey to the Centre of the Earth. Hope you get one you enjoy!

I think I will do a "Cleo" this time and not read for the Spin (I have way tooooo much) and instead join you for a Read Along, if you get #3, #4, #6, #8,#10, #17, #18, #19 or #20. Basically I am duplicating your list and the law of probabilities is not required to deduce that I WILL most likely read along something with you on this Spin! :D

Another buddy read together! How unusual! ;-) I'm so happy with your picks because many of them are reads I've been dreading and it will be so nice to have support. I know I can always count on you! :-)

The only one here I've read is Framley Parsonage and I loved it... just like every other Trollope I've read ;-) Wives and Daughters is on my spin list and I'd be very happy to read it this time around. Good luck on Monday!

I haven't even made it through Ulysses yet so FW is not even on my radar. I simply must get to Herodotus soon! Oh my goodness .... to have a reading buddy for City of God would be beyond my wildest dreams! That would be awesome!

I'm so happy to hear from you, Carol; you've certainly been often in my thoughts and prayers lately. Even if you don't post a list on time, you could always go back and do one. I always have a sense of accomplishment when I check off a book I've read from a spin. All the best!

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